Why Does China Allow Freer Social Media? Protests versus Surveillance and Propaganda

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Realizing the potential of digital development: The case of agricultural advice (2019, background): “The proliferation of phones may also carry risks, such as the potential to exacerbate violent conflict ( 6 ), enable state surveillance and propaganda ( 7 ), accelerate the spread of fake news via social media, or further widen inequality because of uneven access to digital technologies ( 8 , 9 ).”
Media Bias in China (2018, background): “…that such a bias measure exhibits a strong positive correlation with two independent measures of media control at the provincial level: the intensity of internet censorship reported in Bamman et al. (2012) and the share of government accounts on Chinese social media estimated by Qin et al. (2016).”